“Hi, Jax! Guess what?!” The voice said happily and I felt a bite of jealousy in my gut. She was calling him the nickname only I was allowed to call him.
Still, I kept silent as he chuckled. “You know I suck at guesses Julia darling.”
Darling???
I glanced at my son over my shoulder and found him thoughtfully looking at his father.
But Jaxon’s next word snapped my head back to the front. “What?! You are in the city? Right now? You didn’t even tell me beforehand.”
“I know boo. It’s all a surprise even to me too.” Her voice sounded anything but rueful. “Anyway, I’m literally stranded at the airport. You HAVE to come pick me up.”
Expecting my husband to explain to his childhood best friend that he was preoccupied with his family, I was shocked at the bone marrow when he AGREED.
The call ended and before I could ask him what the hell he was doing, he roughly pulled the car to the curb and turned in his seat. “I’m sorry baby but I can’t leave Julia all by herself. It’s been such a long time since she’d returned home. You guys can just call a taxi. I’ll meet you there after, I promise.”
Utterly shocked and filled with fury that his best friend’s arrival was more important to him than our son’s exams, I stormed out of the car with Enzo and watched as my husband drove off, leaving us stranded on the highway!
Shantelle’s POV
“Mommy, is Daddy coming?” I heard my son ask and when I looked down at his face, his eyes were wet with tears. My fists tightened next to me and I promised him that his father wouldn’t miss it for the world. Cheering Enzo up took a few seconds and soon, I was flagging down speeding taxis who refused to lift my son and me.
After spending almost an hour on the highway with no help in sight and my son’s exams starting in almost thirty minutes, I carried Enzo high up in my arms and began running on the highway, heading towards the road that led to the Exam center. Sweat plastered my hair to my forehead, and my lungs burned, but I couldn’t just stop. We had to make it on time.
Enzo had practiced really hard for this and it would wound me if he didn’t get to take his exams because of his father.
But unfortunately, the gates to the Exam center slammed shut just as we reached it and no matter how much I begged, the security refused to open the gates.